An example of personifying nature in science writing:
"[Francis] Bacon wanted men to close in on nature and get to grips with her, bringing their minds to mix in her actual operations. "The secrets of nature", he said, "betray themselves more readily when tormented by art than when left to their own course."
Herbert Butterfield (1957) The Origins of Modern Science 1300-1800 (New Edition: Revised and enlarged). G. Bell and Sons Ltd., London.
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